01732 759725 34 BUSINESS BRIEFING Rob Inchley, Business Development Manager, Siemens Financial Services, Commercial Finance UK I have been reviewing the various pundits who started this year with their predictions for tech trends in the UK, to see which still seem relevant in the light of turbulent world events and recovering economies. My conclusion is that the predictions and trends noted at the beginning of the year are, if anything, even more relevant today. Analysts were finding common ground about the rise of artificial intelligence, which is creeping into everyday applications such as call centre and customer service software rather than being the realms of rocket science. Cyber security remains a major investment area. And the continued move to Sales momentum in a changing world Onward into the cloud In the UK, the public and hybrid cloud market is expected to generate £13.4bn ($17.64bn) in 2022, which is an estimated 17% annual growth rate over 2021. And there’s huge potential for further growth across the decade. Mintel1 refers to “estimates [that] only 25% of workloads have yet been placed on the public cloud and that the hybrid cloud potential is US$1 trillion”.
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